sual course of events will
be promoted to that grade within a year or two. Captain Sanno is
stationed at Fort McKinney, Wyoming, and Captain Williams at Fort
Laramie, Wyoming. Captain Browning died in Paris, May 1, 1882, and
Captain Rawn at Lancaster, Pa., October 6, 1887.

Lieutenant Coolidge was promoted to a captaincy, vice Logan, August 9,
1877, and is now stationed at Camp Pilot Butte, Wyoming. Lieutenant
Jacobs was promoted to a captaincy in the Quartermaster's Department,
1882, and is now stationed at Atlanta, Ga.

Lieutenant Jackson was made a captain November 14, 1885, and is now
stationed at Fort Washakie, Wyoming.

Lieutenant Woodruff was promoted to a captaincy in the Subsistence
Department for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of the Big
Hole, and is now on duty at General Gibbon's headquarters, March, 1878.

Second Lieutenant Van Orsdale was promoted to first lieutenant August
20, 1877, and regimental quartermaster June 1, 1885, and is stationed
at Fort Laramie, the present headquarters of the Seventh Regiment.

Lieutenant Harden is detailed at West Point as instructor in tactics.

Lieut. Francis Woodbridge is on indefinite leave of absence at Detroit,
Mich., awaiting retirement on account of ill health.

CHAPTER VII.

A grateful country has erected on the Big Hole battle-field a fitting
monument, a modest but enduring shaft of solid granite, which marks the
scene of the bloody conflict and tells in mute but eloquent words the
story of the victory won there. The base of the monument is five feet
six inches square; the pedestal is four feet six inches square by three
feet seven inches in height, and the height of the entire structure is
nine feet ten inches. On the north face of the shaft are carved the
words:

ERECTED BY THE UNITED STATES.

On the East Face the Words:

ON THIS FIELD
17 OFFICERS AND 138 MEN
OF THE 7TH U.S. INFANTRY,
UNDER ITS COLONEL, BVT. MAJOR-GENERAL
JOHN GIBBON,
WITH 8 OTHER SOLDIERS AND 36 CITIZENS,
SURPRISED AND FOUGHT ALL DAY
A SUPERIOR FORCE OF NEZ PERCE INDIANS,
MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF THE COMMAND
BEING KILLED AND WOUNDED.

On the south is inscribed:

TO THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS
OF THE ARMY,
AND CITIZENS OF MONTANA,
WHO FELL AT BIG HOLE,
AUGUST 9, 1877,
IN BATTLE WITH NEZ PERCE INDIANS.

And on the west side is a list of the soldiers and citizens killed in
the action, which